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on February 23, 2016 at 7:30 AM, updated February 23, 2016 at 5:01 PM

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NEW BRUNWICK — Rutgers President Robert Barchi's paycheck is getting a lot fatter.

The state university president was awarded a $97,000 annual bonus earlier this month after a closed-door meeting in New Brunswick withmembers of the Rutgers Board of Governors, according to university documents.

Rutgers president gets hefty bonus — and a raise

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Barchi will also get a 2 percent pay raise, retroactive to July 1 of last year, along with other top Rutgers officials.

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That will boost the president's annual base salary by more than $13,000 to $676,260 a year. The pay raise will also make him eligible foran even heftier maximum bonus of $101,439 during his next annual performance review.

Barchi, 69, is in his fourth year as Rutgers' president. He earned high marks during this year's review by the executive committee of theuniversity's board, according to a Feb. 8 letter notifying the president of his bonus and raise.

"We are delighted with the progress Rutgers has seen this past year, and we thank you for your dedication and leadership. We lookforward to continued success in the future," Greg Brown, chairman of the Rutgers Board of Governors, wrote in the letter.

Barchi was eligible for a maximum of $99,450 in "incentive compensation" this year, the equivalent of 15 percent of his base salary,according to his 2012 hiring agreement. The letter from the board did not indicate why Barchi was awarded $2,450 less than his fullbonus.

The new bonus covers Barchi's performance during the 2014-2015 fiscal year, which ended July 1, according to the letter. That pre-datesseveral recent Rutgers controversies, including the arrests of several football players and the suspension of football coach Kyle Flood inSeptember for breaking campus rules by contacting a professor to try to help one of his players improve a grade.

Barchi fired Flood and athletic director Julie Hermann in November after the football team's losing season. The president's leadershipduring those events will be part of his next performance review.

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As it has in past years, the Rutgers board reviewed Barchi's job performance in private and approved his bonus in a closed sessionwithout any public vote or discussion. University officials released a copy of the letter informing Barchi of his bonus and raise after NJAdvance Media inquired about his performance review.

University officials also released a two-page addendum to Barchi's hiring agreement that the board approved in private last summer. Theaddendum, dated July 16, 2015, raised Barchi's pay from $650,000 to $663,000 retroactive to 2014.

Barchi's revised hiring agreement also added a potentially lucrative pre-retirement package for the president. Under the new provisions:

Barchi will get a one-year sabbatical at full pay if he stays in office until at least June 30, 2017. He will have no obligation to returnto Rutgers after his sabbatical.If Barchi choses to return to Rutgers after he steps down as president and takes his sabbatical, he will be offered a job as a full-timeprofessor.Barchi is guaranteed to be among the highest-paid Rutgers professors if he returns to the faculty. Under the deal, he will be paid "noless than" the highest-paid professor at Rutgers, excluding medical school professors. Former Rutgers President RichardMcCormick had a similar clause in his hiring agreement that resulted in his $335,000-a-year history professor post as theuniversity's highest-paid faculty member after he stepped down as president in 2012.

When Barchi was hired in 2012, he said he told the Rutgers board he was making a five-year commitment to the university. He has notindicated he plans to remain president beyond 2017.

Barchi was the highest-paid public college president in New Jersey and the 12th best compensated in the country during the 2013-2014school year, according to a survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education released last year.

In addition to his base salary and bonus, the perks of Barchi's job include the use of a presidential house in Piscataway and a car anddriver.

Barchi's latest bonus of $97,000 is his highest since he arrived at Rutgers. In 2013, he was awarded $90,000 in incentive pay, accordingto university documents. The following year, he was given a $95,000 bonus.

After his first year in office, Barchi and his wife donated his $90,000 bonus back to the university to fund student scholarships.

"He has not made any plans to do that this year," said Peter McDonough, Rutgers' senior vice president for external affairs.

But, the Barchis continue to make regular contributions to various philanthropic causes, McDonough said.

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NJProfessor Feb 24, 2016

While our students continue to accumulate debt, and our graduate students are academic slaves.

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G Man Feb 24, 2016

And Bernie sanders wants to increase our taxes to pay for this? Vote trump so we can fix the real problem.

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insaneukraine Feb 23, 2016

I am lost for words. No public sector employee is worth that much. Universities in general are out of control. Specifically,football/basketball coaches making 2+ million a year. This outrages salary is hurting the tax payers and students

Meanwhile, CC complains and attacks teachers making 50 k a year.

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NJProfessor Feb 24, 2016

@insaneukraine I actually have less of a problem with the coaches. Though I hate to admit it, successful athletic programs translate to aninflux of money through television contracts, merchandise and ticket sales. The coaches pay for their salaries, and additional money forscholarships. Television is particularly profitable, and no one wants to watch loosing teams. The money they make playing Ohio State isastounding. They also fund the smaller departments, and athletic programs that are not financially lucrative, but allow students to attendschool on scholarships. Women particularly benefit from this money. How many people watch the female teams? I used to be againstthose salaries too until I was shown the actual economics.

I don't see the same benefits for the administrative positions. And, these people should be more empathetic toward student loan dept.,and the cost of education. The clear message is think of yourself first, and do not consider the source of the money and the hardship yourgain creates for others. Every administrator should be required to teach a graduate course and an intro undergraduate course. Theyneed to be reminded of the challenges confronting students and professors.

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cantinero7che Feb 23, 2016

This crazy college stuff will end soon. Bernie Sanders will get free tuition for all! If not, then Donald Trump will make America great again.

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Wipe My Server(s) Feb 23, 2016

This is not a Rutgers problem, it is a national problem. There is no accountability for spending, expenses, salaries etc. at higher educationfacilities.

The students, with professors influence, rail against the government for not allocating enough money, student loan debt, unaffordabletuition, etc. But rarely do we look at why costs are so high.

Basically, anything govt subsidized loses any incentive to keep costs low and prices predictably rise. Always.

Free college? If you think expenses are out of control now, just wait. BTW, nothing is free.

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rumedgy88 Feb 23, 2016

in 2013 Robert Barchi got a 90K bonus, and donated it all to the University. For all of you criticizing this now, why were you silent inpraise then?

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edbig Feb 23, 2016

That a kick in the face this is to all the loyal RU employees who have endured no raises, increasing paycheck deductions, and no pensioncontributions for at least a decade. Glad I moved out of NJ. The little guy always gets screwed. Collective bargaining agreements meannothing.

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edbig Feb 23, 2016

TYPO sorry should be What a kick .........

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ThisIsIt Feb 23, 2016

Tell your kids to just take it easy and work for the government. There is no larger customer than the tax base.

2013: Rutgers' tuition and fees have more than doubled since 2001, when annual tuition and fees were $6,654.

-The board voted 7-2 to approve the tuition hike for undergraduates, along with a 1.5 percent increase in room and board costs.

-The tuition increase means the average in-state Rutgers undergraduate will pay $13,499 in tuition and fees for the 2013-14 school year,or $427 more than last year. Once room and board are added in, the total cost of attending Rutgers will rise 2.4 percent to $25,077, or$593 more than last year

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ThisIsIt Feb 23, 2016

2016, I will just use New Brunswick:

Commuter-$14,131

On-Campus-$26,185

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florgen Feb 23, 2016

I get periodic calls from Rutgers asking for donations, as my son graduated from that college in 2008. I told them last time to stop calling.If they can afford to give the president a hefty raise plus a bonus, they sure don't need my donation.

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NJRes Feb 23, 2016

I bet there will be something extra in the students tuition bills next semester.

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AW139 Feb 23, 2016

American Capitalism at its finest.

Give taxpayer dollars to banks that charge exorbitant interest when loaning it back to students, making them indentured servants for life.Then send all the tuition money to your top administrator-accomplices, making tuition even higher!

Another great way to screw a democracy.

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G Man Feb 24, 2016

Democrats did this

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proudusa Feb 23, 2016

Isn't this a bit much for a college that has so many professors that hardy teach class, also a sports program

that is costing millions. How much money does one need working for public colleges

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tralinda Feb 23, 2016

@proudusa I agree the sports program is out of control, especially considering they cut intramural sports about a decade ago in responseto a cut in state aid, and all scholarships for anything other than basketball and football were eliminated. However, please understandthat we Rutgers adjuncts teach our classes very well and professionally. The problem is, we are denied full-time hours as well as anybenefits, including healthcare, and then told we have to essentially work for free doing unpaid prep work and grading. Some of us arepaid by contact hour--school is not in session, we aren't receiving any money.

I have been there 14 years only to see my teaching hours cut down to maximum 12 per week, with no holiday pay, NO sabbatical pay likethe president will receive, and after all my time there, when they cut my hours, I went down to under $25,000 a year on which I supportmy family. I and many of the other adjuncts hold at least one but often two or three other jobs just to make it through each month.

It's the million dollar contracts and ridiculously high severance packages for abusive coaches and incompetent "distinguished" faculty andadministration that is shameful. Rutgers is so top-heavy, if it were alive it would look like a pumpkin on a toothpick.

Please don't ever criticize the professors until you know the kind of crap we put up with, and don't ever assume we "hardly" do anythingwhen without us, who would teach the students? The administration certainly doesn't--they just brag about raising over a billion dollars infundraising while hiring lawyers to fight our union to prevent us from having the things Barchi could fund with one month of his salary.

Did you know that Rutgers adjuncts can't even attend Rutgers classes for free; we only earned reduced tuition this past year in 2015. There are staff and custodians who rightfully can take classes for free -- as can their children! -- but the adjuncts teaching courses cannot.

But to answer your original question, "How much money does one need working for public colleges"--most of us would just like a full-timeliving wage and a little extra to put in the bank after our bills are paid. Barchi is making as much money as almost 30 adjuncts in mydepartment would--that's some math...and that's so offensive.

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njenergy Feb 23, 2016

HIs compensation is hardly out of line given his responsibilities.

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AW139 Feb 23, 2016

@njenergy Another empty suit scamming the public.

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demauroj Feb 23, 2016

Yeah....cause you know

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AW139 Feb 23, 2016

@demauroj As a matter of fact, I do know. I spent a lifetime listening to similar snake oil salesman as they drove businesses into theground and destroyed educational institutions.

They're all the same. They're only there for the money - which they are given far too much of based on their true worth.

I predict Rutgers under Barchi will be every bit as screwed up and sports over education oriented as it is now. We'll see in a few yearswho really does know but you'll likely have lost interest by then.

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artclam Feb 23, 2016

@njenergy His compensation is very out of line considering the number of people who could do that job.

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He is ranked 13 for public universities. He oversees 3 separate universities New Bruswick, Camden, and Newark, as well as a medicalschool. He also has reduced the subsidy to athletics while showing the stones to not only fire a bad coach, but find the money to pay thebuyout from private funds.

It's quite honestly surprising he does not make more based on his responsibilities.

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Based on an different article the football issues were not included as they were not during this period. They will be included next year, buthis handling of them was very well done. He had a third party investigation, suspended the coach, then relived him from duty. Quotehonestly he did his job well in that instance

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AW139 Feb 23, 2016

@demauroj If he was doing his job, none of it would have happened in the first place.

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z0rr0 Feb 23, 2016

Calendar item for Kelly Heyboer:

23 February 2017 - check Barchi's bonus; see if the scandals of 2015 (which became public after the rating period ended) got countedthis time.

Note to self: sleeping through the scandals was worth 97k last year. Waking up should get him to 100k next year

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NIdalap1004 Feb 23, 2016

I love Rutgers, but I know a handful of students who need like $5,000-$8,000 to stay in school and they have been rejected for additionalfinancial aid. It may seem like a trivial number, but that's the world to these kids.

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capt4 Feb 23, 2016

Well he at least he came to work for his salary.... Right Gov??

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oceanboy Feb 23, 2016

@capt4 The Gov is back. You do not have to do that.

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oceanboy Feb 23, 2016

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I do not know if he did a good job or not. But a good president of such a huge university deserves this amount.

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Lendinghell Feb 23, 2016

As a younger man I have seen my closest friends, family members, & colleagues thrown out of the cheapest state schools, because theyare too expensive, and others are destroyed by debt trying to achieve an education. Most of our generation will face intense pressure asour job prospects disappear with every new trade agreement signed. Financial insecurity will chase us throughout our early adulthood, ifnot for a majority of our lives, and our siblings face identical circumstances.

The narrative of American Dream for us younger folks never quite matched the reality at any moment in our lives. We look into ourcountry's past and across borders and can see the benefits of a country investing in their citizens. What we see currently in U.S areRepublicans cutting whatever responsibility a government has left to it's citizens, and Democrats who are not particularly concerned instopping them.

We are accused by the boomers of wanting 'free stuff'. (even after they've enjoyed & benefited from darn near free educations ... taxpayerfunded btw) However, all we want is dignity and a chance to redeem a fundamental promise of the American spirit: to pursue happiness inliberty, and not behind mountains of debt and futures of despair.

Economists tell us that universal healthcare is implausible, as if this one makes any sense. We are always told that today is the mostdangerous point since 9/11...so pay up, in blood & treasure, for more wars. Told Sexism and Racism will end if we make powerful peopleeven more powerful. And the biggest kicker of all is that the people who can activate change are too unelectable...because baby-boomers have voted in favor of big money controlling Americas politics.

Please don't blame us if we don't believe you Mr. Barchi. Cheers.

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njworker101 Feb 23, 2016

So you destroy a great university and you get a bonus too! No wonder higher ed in NJ is too expensive.

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nwk4evr Feb 23, 2016

The people of Nj get exactly what they deserve, Now, get back to work and pay those property taxes you slackers.

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I would like to ask everyone in the forum a sincere question. Dr. Barchi's term will be up I believe next year, so obviously we will have tofind a new president for RU. How much do you think a president of a large University like Rutgers should be paid? and from where dowe find such a person?

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bluzyhound Feb 23, 2016

Does he have a part time job as a crossing guard? I think I've seen him. Double dipper he is.

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Tough to get by on $676,000 these days.

I feel for him. I guess factoring in the football and basketball team were not part of the matrix?

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Servus_II Feb 23, 2016

@bluzyhound And free housing from the University IIRC.

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Well that 14,000 square foot pad is probably getting a little cramped for him. Time to knock it down and build a bigger one.

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@oldhook Is there anything you think that Dr. Barchi did that was good for the univesity?

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Old Hook Feb 23, 2016

@rumedgy88 @oldhook Can you name one solid accomplishment? Assuming Barchi has positive accomplishments, he has staggeredfrom one public relations disaster to the next for most of his term. In the corporate world, any chief executive who permitted so muchdamage to the corporate brand would have been gone long ago.

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@homersleeps He did take responsibility for Julie Herman. He fired her! Lets be fair here

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@rumedgy88 @homersleeps Too little too late. The damage was already done months before he grew a spine.

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brucemg Feb 23, 2016

Wondering why any bonuses are even written into his contract, as if he were a car salesman. He's paid a fair & reasonable salary (forsomeone in his position), to do the best job that he can. Considering the financial state of the state, have to think handing him an extra97K, ON TOP of a raise, very un-necessary.

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kingofspain Feb 23, 2016

@brucemg Many high paying jobs have bonus plans too.

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You have to be kidding! If Rutgers is progressing, I'd hate to see regression. Rutgers is just another money pit for the politically connectedjust like the Port Authority. Got an unwanted AG like Paula Dow? Park her at the Port Authority at a huge salary until a judgeship opensup. Got a stooge Acting AG who wants out before Christie 's term ends? Park him at Rutgers at triple his current salary.

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That Guy Feb 23, 2016

@Old Hook and they said UMDNJ was a "Patronage pit"?

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bromeando Feb 23, 2016

No wonder the kids can't afford college. More trickle up economics.

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Deepcover972 Feb 23, 2016

And they have open union contracts in arbitration from 6 years ago, yet they have plenty of money to pay this guy more? Unbelievable.

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bandit Feb 23, 2016

@Deepcover972 They don't care about honest working people at RU.

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homersleeps Feb 23, 2016

Bonus? The man should have resigned already or been canned. He is the one who is ultimately responsible for hiring Julie Hermann andher running the football program into the ground. Take responsibility for the fiasco, Mr Prez. Or are you too busy being PC?

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